Below are some interesting links and tools:

Childhood Education: Reading Comprehension Games, Activities, & Practice
http://www.distance-education.org/Degrees/Childhood-Education--Reading-Comprehension-Games---Activities----Practice-A597.html

Mensa
http://www.mensa.org/index0.php?page=12

Get ready to read screening tool
http://school.familyeducation.com/reading/early-learning/46528.html

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National Association for Gifted Children
http://www.nagc.org/index.aspx?id=1498

Academic Challenges
http://www.nagc.org/uploadedFiles/PHP/Competition%20Chart.pdf

http://www.giftedstudy.com/resources/educators/links.asp

http://www.prufrock.com/?gclid=CISP_5i445MCFSQWiQodPjOfWQ

Digital Kids ideas
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/products/visualcommunicator/lessons/

Passport to Learn
Author: Jacqueline Melin

Price: $24.95
Designed as an around-the-world adventure for gifted students, these activities emphasize creativity, problem solving, inquiry, and critical thinking in the fields of math, language arts, leadership skills, social studies, and science.

Grades 4–8

Design Studio: Integrating Art & Thinking
Author: Dianne Draze

Price: $11.95
More than an art class, this book is also a course in thinking. Students learn how to create attractive designs using the techniques of unity, variety, repetition, movement, proportion, and more. Concise information is combined with unique projects that allow students to hone both their their thinking and artistic skills.

Grades 5–9

KidPix4 Movie Tutorials
http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/kidpix_deluxe4/

KidPix4 PowerPoint
http://visalia.k12.ca.us/teachers/dbronzan/profdev/Kid%20Pix%204.ppt

French Printable Texts
http://bdemauge.free.fr/index_litterature.htm

Create a graph
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx?ID=fe42d8504f8743f58663ba86118f75d4

Critical Thinking Grade 8 - The Arts in Renaissance Europe
http://www.carcpd.ab.ca/social/criticalthinking/renaissanceArt_gr8/index.html

Critical Thinking Grade 7 - Riel and MacDonald: Great Leaders?
http://www.carcpd.ab.ca/social/criticalthinking/greatLeaders_gr7/index.html#download

Critical Thinking Grade 8 - Renaissance Thinkers
http://www.carcpd.ab.ca/social/criticalthinking/renaissanceThinkers_gr8/index.html

Science Fair Guide
http://rcrsf.ca/documents/Grade%207%20-%208%20Guide%20to%20Science%20Fairs.pdf

Pre-AP 7/8 info
http://www.mansfieldisd.org/departments/guidance/pdf/ms-courseguide08-09.pdf

Tail of 2 millenium WebQuest
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/ofarrell/calendars/

Roller Coaster Rock N Roll WebQuest
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/pershing/coaster/
http://www.rcdb.com/is.htm?type=2&status=9
Students will need to have access to computers with a browser and a printer - preferably color. Model-building materials - such as craft sticks and glue guns, or other basic crafting items will also be needed. Many students and parents are willing to provide these. There are some roller coaster videos that would add extra pizzaz to the learning.


Inventors workshop
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/invention-leonardoslegacy/

Avalanches
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/ragingplanet-avalanche/

American Sign Language/Sense and Technology
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/sensetechnology/
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm

Math challenges
http://www.figurethis.org/download.htm

Math arcade games
http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/arcade/


Early Years Mathematics Activities and Games
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/math/games/index.html

Algebraic transformations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L566


Arithmetic Tic-Tod
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons/Arithme-Tic-Toc/Arithme-Tic-Toc-AS-AddMultTable.pdf

Lessons
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons.aspx

Math Central is an award winning site maintained by faculty and students in Mathematics and Statistics and Mathematics Education at the University of Regina in Regina. It exists in both English and French (and Spanish!!) and features famous mathematicians, teacher resources, even a problem of the week…
http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/

The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice. More information on many of our other activities can be found here.

Math Games
Hexxagon
http://kidrocket.org/game_hexxagon.php

Mastermind
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